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Saturday, October 19, 2013

Unhealthy Bodies Can Hinder Your Novel

Writers Need To Exercise their
bodies as well as their writing skills.

It’s so very easy to sit away and
clack at the keyboard and never get up and move around. But the quality of a
novel is very much enriched or spoiled by the physical health of the writer
behind the words. With November coming up many of you will partake in the
grueling 30 day challenge to write 50K words. It is so important that you give
your body the nutrition it needs however during that month people load up on
coffee, candies, easy-to-prepare foods, and anything and everything that IS NOT
on your doctor’s suggested list of items.

But that’s okay, right? Not if you
aren’t going to exercise your body. So I would like to list FIVE simple
exercise activities that will support a more healthy body this coming month. I
mean, you do want to write the best book possible, yes? So here they are:1.Wall
push-ups.

Get up from your writing spot and find the closest wall. Take
a step or two away from the wall and then extend your arms away from you and
touch the wall, palms down. Now do ten push-ups. It’s that easy

2.Chair
Twists

To get the stiffness out of your body, sit at your chair and
simply and slowly twist your arms to one side and then twist to the other side.
Ten times and I bet you’ll be feeling a little looser. You may hear some snap,
crackle, and pops too!

3.Neck flex

Your
neck is in one spot for a long time while you are writing. It’s important to relieve
the tension in your neck just as it is your back. With this exercise you simply
take your arm and bend your neck to the left, hold for 5 seconds, then turn head
back to normal state. Take your other arm and bend neck to the other side. Then
after returning to normal state, bend neck forwards and back five times. Make
sure you do this slowly.

4.Arm
extensions

Get
your waterbottle or unopened soda can or you can opt to stretch without any
tools. Extend one arm to the left side and then pull lower arm upwards. See
picture. Then repeat 10 times. Do same with other arm. With your arms in one
standard position as you type you really will benefit from this exercise.

5.Wrist
stretching

This
one is simple. Just take your wrists and go around and around for about twenty
revolutions.

There
you go. These won’t take you long at all but the benefits will be far-reaching!